

The screen made it easy to spot individual speckles of snow in Lara Croft's hair, and everything from the red of her winter jacket to the orange of explosions had a nice pop to it on the monitor's Standard mode. The Predator Z1's 27-inch, 1080p screen handled just about every genre well, starting with the cinematic action of Rise of the Tomb Raider. There were rare instances in which the nub got a bit stuck, but it was never enough to keep me from making quick adjustments on the fly. In February, Pratilipi raised Series A funding of $4.3 million led by Omidyar Network.Using the Z1's nub felt much more natural and intuitive than dealing with many of the capacitive and button-based interfaces on other monitors.

Its Android app has been downloaded more than one million times. Pratilipi claims it has 1.2 million readers and 26,000+ writers on its platform, and more than 9.5 million content pieces are read every month on mobile and desktop. On the Pratilipi platform, users can read, write, and download free stories, books, poems, articles, magazines, and ebooks across eight Indian languages - Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati. Pratilipiīengaluru-based self-publishing startup Pratilipi is giving voice to “Bhasha literature” or India’s non-English writing. Unlike other apps, Juggernaut fosters reader-writer interactions, and mandates all contracted authors to spend time responding to reader queries on its platform.

Besides Juggernaut’s own catalogue, the app also stocks titles from HarperCollins India and Duckbill. Juggernaut hopes to bring about a “cell phone novel” culture - that has reportedly taken over Japan - in India, which boasts over 300 million smartphone users. The Delhi-based startup, funded by UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani among others, has popularised serialised fiction and the pay-per-story format among Indian readers.

In two years, it has notched up over a million downloads on Play Store. Juggernaut has a unique proposition: it is a mobile-first publishing platform besides being a reading app.
